Word: redeemingly
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...Cole Porter couldn't do much with Greek legend and Yoskowitz, whose "fertility, agility, virility" sequences are more Tom Lehrer than Porter, fares no better. If the play let was intended as comedy, there is none; if as poetry, the lover's one creditable speech near the need cannot redeem...
...plants, but not his company. Kaiser Manufacturing, which is changing its own name to Willys Motors, will operate the plants, while the original Willys-Overland Motors, having transformed its property into cash, will continue as an independent investment company. As with any other investment company, stockholders who want to redeem their stock will ultimately be able to cash it in for the $17 net asset value (nearly $2.50 more than its market price after the merger...
...distance himself. His priestly hero, Don Ardito, is one of those men who, like Tolstoy, struggle to tell the world that it has totally forgotten what Christianity is. "We say that the Father sent His Son to earth in the flesh and that the Son died ... in order to redeem us ... And we say further that every day we are allowed to repeat His sacrifice for our eternal salvation. We have said that millions of times ... for the past 20 centuries, but who believes it? Who believes it strongly enough to act in conformity with his belief...
...have generally lost their liberties by way of passing from civilian to a quasimilitary status. Nothing is more conducive to arbitrary rule than the military junta. It would be a tragic development indeed if this generation was forced to look to the rigidity of military dominance and discipline to redeem it from the tragic failure of a civilian administration. It might well destroy our historic and wise concept which holds to the supremacy of the civil power...
...music on earth-and political speeches." Said the ex-President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest to redeem himself with another invention: "That is the push button by which we could transmit our emotions instantly back to the broadcasters...